Chapter 1: What challenges does Sierra Leone's diamond industry currently face?
Tapahtuipa kerran, että pessimisti, optimisti ja saletisti grillasivat. Ja niinhän siinä kävi, että saletisti onnistui. Saletisti onnistuu! Saletisti onnistuu!
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One of the most contested and contentious areas in all of Sierra Leone right now. I feel so bad, so devastated. When they closed the mine, my source of income was closed down. This is our challenge, our husbands have been laid off and there is no money.
An industrial dispute and what it says about the legacy of diamonds here in West Africa. That's Business Daily from the BBC.
The view is extraordinary around here. You've got the mountains in the distance, palm trees, verdant forests. This is the richest, most fertile region of an already pretty lush green country. You feel like Sierra Leone should be doing a lot better than it is, but nowadays it remains one of the poorest countries in the world, dependent on its mineral resources for what foreign income it makes.
Kono on hyvin rikki biodiversiteettiin. Se on hyvin rikki soittimiseen. Melkein kaikki tekee hyvin täällä. Kaskut, puutut.
Livestock, all of them are here. We only need the requisite investment. That's Augustin Chekho. He's the chairman of the local Kono district council. As well as a lush landscape, the region enjoys vast mineral riches underground too. Dag Kramer is the CEO of Koidu Limited, the country's biggest diamond mining concession. Historically, diamond mining in Sierra Leone goes really back to the 1930s.
siksi, että suurin piirtein ja koulutuksen, ja koulutuksen kohdistuminen on tärkeää. Se on tärkeä, jos ei suurin piirtein suurin piirtein osallistuminen ympäristö- ja kansainvälinen suhteen. Olemme nähneet yliopistoja maahanmuuttoon Sierra Leoneen viime viikkoja.
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Chapter 2: How has the closure of the Koidu diamond mine affected local workers?
Paranoia fuelled perhaps by the events of last year. The strikes and protests were some of the most active unrest seen in Kono in the last two decades.
The anger was directed by families of mine workers towards Koidu Limited, the international firm that runs the Diamond Concession. It employs a thousand local workers. Suleiman Mansari is the secretary general of the Mine Workers Union. He claims that an initial deal to resolve the industrial dispute was broken by management. We came to an agreement that they would give us 30%.
A bag of rice for you every month and they will provide toilet facility for you. They will be giving you water. These are some of the things we are saying. So we are just waiting for them to implement. They failed to do that. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. They failed to do that. Started to dismiss people. Just started to dismiss people. If you talk, they will just dismiss you.
The essence of the dispute between the company and the workers boiled down to rates of pay. Suleiman Mansari and other miners say wages were being squeezed following a company move some years ago to switch from paying local staff in dollars to the Sierra Leonean currency instead. At first they would tell you that you would be paying a sum of this in a US dollar, payable in Leone, using the prevailing exchange rate at a time. If the dollar goes up, you will see it on your payslip.
If it comes down, you'll see it again in your payslip. But early 2016, it is fixed at 650. Now the dollar is not 650 in Sierra Leone. What is it now? It's something like 23. 23.5 Leones. That is the policy. So miners say the company was profiting thanks to the falling value of the Leone. Koidu Limited categorically denies this. Here's the CEO, Dag Kramer, again.
A lot of the narrative out there is convoluted, it's fake, it's wrong. This pegging to the dollar and so on is part of that narrative. And there is no factual foundation for it. It's false. You were using an up-to-date exchange rate for their rates of pay, were you? No, we were paying the local workforce in Sierra Leonean currency.
which we were obliged to do by regulations in the country, the lowest paid worker at Koidu was paid three times the national minimum wage going into this. And the working conditions at Koidu, any person who has been there or visited will confirm that the conditions were exceptionally good, not only by Sierra Leonean standards, but by mining standards in Africa.
You're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. Redgo. Apua tien päällä kaikkialla Suomessa. Ja matka jatkuu. Redgo. Hinaus ja tiepalvelut. I'm Ed Butler and today I'm looking at the massive industrial dispute in Sierra Leone that's threatened development and some say peace in the country. Both sides have been accusing each other of misrepresenting the pay issue here.
Based on pay slips the BBC has seen, one submitted to the court, Koidu mine workers do appear to have experienced a substantial pay cut in real terms. While the company has been selling its diamonds on the global market in dollars, salaries paid in local currency have not kept pace. By early last year the president's wife Fatima Bio had intervened. She was taking the mine workers' side in what was becoming an increasingly vitriolic dispute.
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Chapter 3: What historical context influences the diamond mining industry in Sierra Leone?
Olemme keskustelleet Kuidun kanssa, koska olemme hallitus ja olemme yhdessä. Olemme työskenteleviä, jotta ihmiset eivät pysty hyödyntämään mineraalista rahaa, joka heille perustuu.
The words there of the Attorney General, Alpha Cisse, who does insist that negotiations to restart the mine are still ongoing, despite there being no signs of this. Well, we asked the First Lady for an interview as well. She didn't respond. There is now a class action lawsuit against Koidu Limited in Freetown, the capital, for what miners say are unpaid wages. Whether they win or not, the economic consequences of the region's biggest single employer shutting its gates...
ovat lämpimästi kaikille. Olemme menneet tuohon pöydän ympäristöön. Ympäristön ympäristön ympäristön ympäristön.
I feel so bad, so devastated when they close their mind. My source of income was closed down. I manage right now to take care of my family. It's a part-time job.
Just doing odd jobs. But it's not the same as a mine job, right? Definitely, definitely. Sharif's wife, Mani, leads me inside their home. She speaks to me both in broken English and in her local Creole language. We are coming into just a little shack. It's how many rooms? How many rooms here? Five rooms. Bare concrete walls.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the recent industrial dispute for the community?
Kuinka monet asuvat täällä? 15. Meillä on 15 ihmistä täällä. Meillä on 15 ihmistä täällä? Kyllä. Ylipäätään lapset? Kyllä. Kuinka monta lapsia sinulla on? Minulla on 4 lapsia. 15 ihmistä täällä. Meillä ei ole vettä. Meillä ei ole vettä. Meillä ei ole vettä. Meillä ei ole vettä. Meillä ei ole vettä. Meillä ei ole vettä.
Kukuri on koko maa. Minun pitäisi aloittaa kukuri. Kukuri on koko maa. Minulle on todella vaikeaa pysyä lasteni, erityisesti nyt, kun heidät on jätetty kouluun. Kouluopetukset eivät ole siellä. Elämä on niin vaikeaa perheeseen. Miten te teette rahaa nyt? Kukuri on koko maa. Minulla on kukuri-alue, joten minun pitää rahaa tuoda perheeseen.
Ollaan ihmisiä, jotka tekevät yrityksiä. Ollaan ihmisiä, jotka tekevät pettitradingia, maahanmuuttajia, maahanmuuttajia, just to make ends meets. Was life better when your husband was mining? Well, when the mining been done, when was it done?
Elämä oli hyvä minun ja perheeni aikana, kun isäni työskennelli. Lopulta saimme rahoja ja rahaa perustaa perheemme. Mutta koska ympäristö on todella vaikeaa, elämä on todella pahaa minulle. Jopa tuoda päivän ruokaa on haastavaa. Sinun lapsesi ovat täällä tänään. Miksi he eivät ole kouluun? Siksi, että he eivät saa kouluun.
Nyt on kaksi viikkoa. Kaksi viikkoa olet ulos koulua. Hän katsoo minua. Hän näyttää syvältä. Mitä sinun nimi on? Joshua. Haluaisitko olla koulua tänään? Kyllä. Haluatko koulua? Mitä haluat kouluun? Kuunnella. Haluat kuunnella. Haluan kuunnella. Haluan kuunnella.
As I was preparing to leave, Sharif, the former mine worker, took me to one side. Winning the legal claim for lost wages, he said, was now the key. If I don't get another job, the date that has been set, if we don't get the final say of our case in court, we do not get our benefit.
Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa. Olemme rauhassa.
Limbaa. Tämne. Somebody said tämne. Fula.
There is of course another more positive vision for Kono. At this school I met children with dreams. Studying they said to become teachers, doctors, web designers. Abubaka Amara is the school's head teacher. He believes literacy and mathematics are the country's best hope. The only true path out of poverty. We want to make the future bright for the kids that are going to school now. With education they can change this community.
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Chapter 5: How do lab-grown diamonds pose a threat to traditional diamond mining?
Kyllä, minulle rauhoitukseet ovat pysyneet meitä. Varmuus, rauhoitus. Jos kysytään nyt, mitä rauhoitukseet ovat tehneet yhteiskunnallisemme, mitä rauhoitukseet ovat tehneet Conorille, mitä rauhoitukseet ovat tehneet Sireliinille, niin nyt me olemme huomattaneet, että olemme pysyneet maailmassa. Minulle rauhoitukseet ovat pysyneet meitä.
but still the local people dig, sifting gravel amidst the mud in homemade pits to supplement their income. In tomorrow's Business Daily, I'm going to be looking more at that industry here, and the new economic challenge that's threatening the traditional diamond miners. The emergence of industrial-made gems grown in labs in faraway countries like India and China. What's the best choice for today's diamond consumers? The lab-grown
Or the traditional diamonds. And what's best for those still digging for a living? Join me, Ed Butler, for that. Tapahtuipa kerran, että pessimisti, optimisti ja saletisti suunnittelivat tapasiltaa. Ja niinhän siinä kävi, että saletisti onnistui.